Hour 1: Trumps first 100 days

Trumps first 100 days.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, We're halfway through the week. Thank you so much
for joining us this morning, and good morning to you
in the Big Three. President Trump celebrates his first hundred
days by going to Michigan.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hello, Michigan.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hello, We love you, Michigan.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
We love you.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
But it was a combative interview with ABC's Terry Moran
that stole a lot of the attention.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
One percent confidence in one hundred percent?

Speaker 2 (00:27):
Confidence in anything?

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Okay, anything? Do I have one hundred percent?

Speaker 2 (00:32):
It's a stupid question.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'll tell you what. ABC is probably high fiving themselves,
but this was an embarrassment for the network. They always
think they do well in these interviews, you know, and
Terry Moran went in trying to make it all about
Terry Moran. But they will continue to leak viewers and
they won't be able to understand why. And also, just

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like that, as they predicted yesterday, the tariffs have been
adjusted to help Michigan automakers. I'm giving them a little
bit of a break, right.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
They took in parts from all over the world.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
I don't want that.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
I wanted to make their parts here, but I gave
them a little bit of time. It's fifteen percent and
then ten percent of the parts, So it's not so bad.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
Another deadline comes and goes, and the cameras, the congestion
pricing cameras are still on, and the Transportation Secretary Sean
Duffy says punishment is coming as he attacks the spending
by the MTA.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Maybe the MTA has to do a better job of
managing than a budget. If you're going to build a
mile of subway for four billion dollars and you spend
two hundred and fifty million dollars a quarter of a
billion on consulting, maybe they need to spend their their
money better. Maybe it's not a revenue problem, maybe it's
a spending problem.

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Maybe it's just an MTA problem. And the Hardy Weinstein
rape retrial is now underway and accusers like Mimi Haley
have to testify again.

Speaker 6 (01:57):
Well, it's a difficult decision. Took a while for her
to think about it. It's a big commitment of time,
mostly of emotion, having to relive the traumatic events to
which she testified.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
I can't imagine having to go through that again. Harvey
Weinstein's putting these people through absolute hell. But let's start
with that Trump rally, Because of course, one of the
first things he talked about was trade.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
They're coming from India, They're coming from France, They're coming
from Spain.

Speaker 1 (02:34):
Yeah, they're coming from China too. Yeah, they're coming from China.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
They're coming from all over the world to see your president.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
It's very funny that China keeps saying no, no, no, no,
we're not talking to them. I don't know what he's
talking about. And there's video of Chinese delegates at the
White House. It is a riot that and by the way,
the media believes China. That's what gets me. There's everybody
in the administration, including Scott Bessen, who looks like the

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most honest guy in the world and has known by
people that have been around him in business for years
as one of the most honest guys in the world.
He says, yeah, we just had him here. They had
delegates here, but no, China says, they're not talking. So
the media goes, well, guess what Trump's lying. It is
incredible how they're willing to believe anybody else but the

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United States President, and with no proof. By the way,
just China said so, because China, you know, has been
so honest over the years. It gets me. But the
deal with India apparently is almost ready to be signed.
That's gonna be done. So all this talk constantly about no, no, no,

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it can't happen that fast is not true. Yes, to
get the final paperwork done might take some time. But
if you have an agreement in principle, or you have
a structure to an agreement, you can shake hands and
sign over that and then you can start getting a reduction.
Everybody said that, but again, can't trust the Trump administration. No, no, no,

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We have experts that we hire that are going to
tell you that that's not true. It is the biggest
shell game in the world that the media is playing
when it comes to Donald Trump. Who they believe, who
they trust, and it's anybody but Donald Trump. And it's
embarrassing not for him because he always turns out to

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be right, it's embarrassing constantly for the media speak about
speaking of an embarrassment. I'm going to get away from
the rally for a second because all of the attention
left the rally after Terry Moran grandstanded with the President.
I got to know Terry Moran not well. I mean,
I've been at a couple of events with them. I've

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sat at tables with them, talk to him that kind
of stuff.

Speaker 7 (04:59):
You know.

Speaker 1 (04:59):
I wouldn't call him friend, but I know him, and
he's a pompous ass, always has been. Anybody you talk
to about him, he's a pompous ass. He is one
of these guys that went to ABC and he expected
to get the main newscast, never did. He expected to
get Nightline, never did. He expected to get the Sunday

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morning show, never did. And so he's always trying to
make a name for himself because he has an axe
to grind. And I can promise you that he went
into this interview thinking I'm gonna show them I'm going
to take on Donald Trump, because this was the most

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biased interview that was so much about him. He kept interrupting,
he kept arguing with him. It was more of a
debate than it was an interview. Like when he told
the president what he can do with Kilmar Abrego Garcia,

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he told him what his job should be.

Speaker 4 (06:07):
You could call up the president of El Salvador and
say send him back but now, and if he were
the gentleman that you say he is, I would do that.

Speaker 1 (06:13):
But the court has listed you to facilitate that you're.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
Not the one making this decision. We have lawyers want
to do this. The buck stops eyes on, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Just keeps interrupting. By the way, it was a debate,
it wasn't an interview. Terry Moran decided he was going
to make this all about him. It was not to
get information. It was to challenge the president, interrupt the president,
argue with the president. Many places you'd be fired for that.

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ABC probably thinks that's tremendous. Probably thinks that's just great.

Speaker 2 (06:53):
Companies are flooding into our country right now.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
So your answer to the concern about the tariffs is
everything's going to be unky dory.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Everything's gonna be just fine.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Now, when do you use the word hunky dory? When
exactly do you use that word when you're making fun?
Oh so everything's hunky dory? Huh. Nobody uses that word
unless you don't believe what the person's saying, unless you're
mocking what the person just said. That's the only reason

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you went for the mic for a second. Do you
want to do you want to verify that hunky dorry
is one of those terms you only use when you're
criticizing what the other person just said.

Speaker 8 (07:34):
I yeah, yeah, although it's a cute term.

Speaker 1 (07:40):
No, oh, so everything's gonna be hunky dory. That's a sark.
That's sarcasm when you say that. That's not saying, oh
so you're saying everything's gonna be fine. That would be fine.
It's not hunky dory. And so we go on looking
to say something's gonna happen. No, okay, we have no business.

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I want to ask you to I do no business.

Speaker 4 (08:03):
So one hundred and forty five percent tariffs on China,
and that is that's basically an embargo. It'll raise prices
on everything from electronics.

Speaker 1 (08:12):
To clothing to building houses.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
You don't know that. You don't know whether or not
China's mathematics. China probably will eat those tariffs, but at
one hundred and five five they basically can't do much
business with the United States.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
That's mathematics. Really, he sat down and did that formula
Terry Moran. No, he wanted to argue. This is exactly
what he wanted. He did not, in his wildest dreams,
want an interview. He went into this thinking I'm going
to interrupt them. I'm going to tell him the way

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things is, and I'm going to debate him. It was.
It was such an amazing embarrassment for ABC. And by
the way, person after person at ABC now we have
really good people with us from ABC, really good. Your
Dana Miller is the best in the Middle East. Peter

(09:07):
Harralambu's investigative reporter for ABC, tremendous. So I'm not castigating
all of ABC. They have some wonderful people there who
do their job, are unbiased and don't try to make
themselves the story. There are some people you know that
you used to hear here that aren't here anymore because

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they were a little bit too biased. You know, my
job's to give an opinion. That's my job. That's not
their job to give their opinion. They're supposed to give
the facts and give information they know to be true.
They're never ever supposed to make themselves the story. They're

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never this is journalism one oh one. They are never
supposed to mock the person they're talking to. Ever. So,
if Terry Moran to go back to where we started
with this, if Tony Moran is wondering why he's not
the anchor of the evening News, why he's not doing

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the Sunday show why he didn't get Nightline. That was
your reason. There's the evidence right there. Because you're an embarrassment.
We'll get into a poll coming up a little bit later,
not a poll of research done a little bit later
showing how bias the media has been under Trump. There

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is an alcoholic drink that researchers say can reduce the
risk of cardiac arrest. No, it's not red wine. We'll
tell you what it is. Plus tickets to see the
Creeden's Clear What a Revival Founder and lead singer John
Fogerty at the Beacon Theater at A twenty five. As always,
thanks for being here, and thanks for your talkbacks yesterday.
You were great with the talkbacks, got a lot of

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fascinating things. We were so stacked up and there was
so much going on we didn't get to get to
the talkbacks. I'm gonna up for that in a second.
But I also want to remind you that we would
love for you to talk about the Terry Moran interview,
Trump and the tariffs, anything that's on your mind today
as well. Go to the iHeartRadio app look for seven

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to ten wor and when you hit seven ten wor
you'll see the talkback feature and you go to that,
you hit the microphone, you record what you want to say,
and then you're on the air. So many people called yesterday.
We were talking about Governor Hoko yesterday and the budget
where she said her big idea was to ban cell

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phones and that is going to happen cell phones from schools.
And I'm so glad that this person called because this
is something I should have said yesterday. Good morning, Larry,
it's Billy listen. I think it's so funny. Hokol always
comes out with these great ideas when she's in trouble.

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It's just a joke. She is pathetic, yes, absolutely, And
there's more in that budget to buy votes. There's childhood
tax credits, there's money that just because they had too
much money in the budget, everybody in the middle class
is going to get a few hundred hours, and then

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there are tax breaks all of that in this budget.
Trust me, if she gets re elected, the next budget
after that's going to bring all that money back. There'll
be a tax increase just to get that money back.
It's the oldest trick in the book. But you're right,
because she's up for reelection. All these things are going
to happen now now. Donald Trump signed an executive order

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requiring proficiency in English for truck drivers, and we asked
truck drivers to call in. Bus drivers are just as good.

Speaker 9 (12:54):
Good morning, folks, regarding needing to speak English when you're
a truck driver. I'm a SCHOOLUS driver just to be
ready to go out on my morning run. And there
are times when communication is key, and if you're not
able to communicate with different types of people, emergency responders
and others, then there could be an issue that could

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be very dangerous. So obviously being able to speak English
as a truck driver or similar is important.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
That's fascinating. I didn't think of that. Of course, in
an emergency, you need to speak English. You need to
be able to communicate, and you need to be able
to communicate very quickly. One last one, Joe Bartlett's former
news director here was on. He's now retired in South Carolina,
is doing a lot of his own shopping, and he
was complaining yesterday about shrinkflation, the fact that you're maybe

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paying the same prices for things, but when you open
it up, you get less of it.

Speaker 10 (13:50):
Good morning, This is Anna from Utah. I work at
a grocery store doing tags. That's why I'm always up
so early listening to you. This is for Joe Bartlett,
just to let him know all those sizing and pricing
things have been going on for at least four years
I've been in the grocery store industry. They have made
things smaller, like the condensed milk. That actually has been

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going on way longer. I think they've only come in
twelve ounce sizes.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
Yeah, it's been going on I think longer than four years.
It's just how long she's been working at the grocery store.
But you've noticed it, oh, absolutely.

Speaker 8 (14:25):
But you know what Joe is saying, and it really
is annoying, is that you know, recipes say call for
sixteen ounces, but now they're only making it in a
thirteen ounce container. Now you have to buy two. You
don't need to, so you're spending more money and you're
probably wasting half of it.

Speaker 1 (14:42):
That's terrible.

Speaker 8 (14:44):
Yeah, yeah, because you never need thirteen ounces of anything.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
I guess I don't buy enough stuff at the supermarket,
actually I do. You know. I like to go I
like to go to BJ's and just buy so much.
So I never have to worry about the amount because
I get way more than I possibly need, and we
just stored it in the garage. You know how much
stuff we have stored in the garage that we've never
even opened or used from BJ's. Pretty soon I can

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open my own BJS.

Speaker 8 (15:11):
I'm a BJ's fan too. I love BJS, Yes, I
really do.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
And I'm such a sucker for those coupons. I'm such
a sucker. Look, I got two dollars off. It costs
sixty bucks.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Do you use the app?

Speaker 1 (15:25):
App? I do use the app?

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Okay, I use Natalie in her head making it in
the air, I went through those apps.

Speaker 8 (15:32):
I can't wait at the end when I see I
just saved twelve bucks, I'm like.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Oh, he's very fascinated. What gets Natalie excited? Yesj's app?
Yeah real quickly, let me talk about, uh, the food
you can eat that would help you prevent a cardiac arrest.
Everybody thought, I'm sure when I was telling the story
it was wine. Close close. This research done in Canada

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said that it is wine, but it is not necessarily
red wine. They say white wine is more beneficial, and
the most beneficial is champagne.

Speaker 8 (16:14):
Well that is for me, then I'm going to be
excited again. We should have it right now because I
am a champagne girl.

Speaker 1 (16:23):
That was one of the things they actually go through
fifty two. You're not gonna like the rest of the
fifty two. I'll take that one. It's all good.

Speaker 8 (16:30):
We'll just take what week the other one.

Speaker 1 (16:32):
Let's end you with fat. Then let's get the news
at six point thirty with Jacqueline Carl Jacqueline, Good Morning.

Speaker 3 (16:37):
The Trump administration will be easing tariffs for some automakers.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik announced the deal before President Trump
spoke yesterday in Michigan, the heartland of the Big three
US automakers, to mark his first one hundred days in office.
The New York City Rent Guidelines Board is set to
hold a preliminary vote today on rent increases for rent

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stabilized apartments.

Speaker 11 (17:00):
A final vote is expected in the next two months,
but it would be the fifth consecutive rentike if approved.
Landlords say the rising cost of insurance and fuel have
made it hard to keep their properties in order. Renhikes
would go into effect for leases starting October first. Several
candidates vying for New York City mayor have said they
would push the board to leave rents alone, but Mayor
Eric Adams has not made the same commitment. Last year,

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the board approved a two and a half percent rent
increase on one year leases and a more than five
percent increase on two year leases. Natalie mcliori wour News.

Speaker 3 (17:32):
Now I want you guys to really think about this.
What would you do if this happened to you? According
to The New York Post, a couple near Seattle got
quite the surprise when settling into their new home. While
discussing kitchen renovations, they discovered a hidden note tucked inside
a cabinet saying don't look under the floor with a

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mysterious fourteen digit number. I'm not going to read out
the whole number that to me is the equivalent of
club out. But they attempted various methods to code the numbers,
such as dividing it by their unit numbers, if code
the year the house was built.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
No avail.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
Then they turned to Reddit, which we all do. Were
you just speculating? The number could be ending from a
library card to GPS coordinates or a hidden safe combination,
and so far they have no clue what the notes about.
My question is did you look under the floor? I
guess you didn't specify which floor, So maybe it could

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be they don't want to tear up all the floors
in their house.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
But or it could have been a joke.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
What what would you do.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
If that happened. I'd look under the floor, I'd be
looking floor, I'd keep looking, and yes, absolutely wouldn't.

Speaker 8 (18:41):
You Well in the kitchen floor, for sure if that
was in the kitchen.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
Although gorgeous tile flows, I know, God.

Speaker 8 (18:48):
That that's what I was about to say. Floors are
very expensive.

Speaker 1 (18:52):
Well, you don't ruin the floor, you just remove some
of the floor.

Speaker 6 (18:58):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
That's like we have been. We have near wood down
on our floor. You can pick that up. You can
get that up, okay, because it's there's a just because
of the great possibility. This is why we play the lotto,
because of the great possibility that it's a hidden treasure.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
Don't you think it's more likely a body.

Speaker 8 (19:14):
I was gonna say a dead body.

Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, well that'd be exciting too, but really yeah, of course,
then you get that the police will come over and
you might as just solve a huge mystery. Yeah, just
having company is a big deal for me. How lonely
do you think I am?

Speaker 3 (19:31):
This is like and the police they'll come over. It's
like most people don't want that.

Speaker 8 (19:37):
Why this is a great question. Would I rip up
my floor right?

Speaker 3 (19:41):
Because most kitchens they are doing renovations, so that could
be thing, but they but most kitchens have like really
nice tiling, which is not easy to bang it up
and get rid of and then replace to get the
exact color. I might just leave the body there, I
was gonna say, I might just save the house and move.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
I would love to know what was under there. I
don't think I could resist that kind of mystery. Well,
the tariff war is on pause now, Thank you, Jacqueline.
The tariff war is on pause now, and there's a
reason for hope and don't forget. You can leave us
a talk back all morning long. Go to seven tenth
and WR on the iHeartRadio app and click the microphone

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and when you're there, put seven to ten WOR on
your presets. But I get to the tariffs in a second.
But I'm still fuming about that Terry Moran interview, so
I want to comment on it once again in case
you're just tuning in Terry Moran did a hit job
on Donald Trump, and it was just awful. It was

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so much about Terry Moran and I'm going to take
him on, and I'm going to take him down, and
he ended up embarrassing himself. And I talked about knowing
Terry Moran a little bit, but also hearing about Terry
Moran and how he's always disappointed he doesn't get the
big job. So I guess this was the moment he
was going to take down Donald Trump. And the interview

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was more like an argument. I'll play a little bit
and then I want to tell you why I want
to continue talking about this. Look to say something's going
to happen. No, okay, well, the thing's going to happen.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
You know business, how I want to ask you, I
do no business.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yes, So one hundred and forty five percent tariffs on China,
and that is that's basically an embargo. It'll raise prices
on everything from electronics to clothing to building houses.

Speaker 11 (21:28):
You don't know that.

Speaker 2 (21:29):
You don't know whether or not China's mathematics China probably
will eat those tariffs, but at one hundred and forty
five they basically can't do much business with the United States.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
That's mathematics. Like this fool did the mathematical equations, like
he knows more than Scott Besson, the Treasury secretary, who's
made billions on doing mathematics. It was an embarrassing interview.
But I'm just bringing this up again because the entire media,
or most in the media, not the entire media, as

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I said, there's some great reporters out there, But the
problem is the executives lied to us. The people that
run these networks, they lied to us. Remember what they
said they were gonna fix all of this. They realized
they had a problem. Even even at the Washington Correspondence
dinner they got up and they said, we have to
do better. They never do. They can't remove themselves from

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their own bias. It consumes them. And I'm not just
saying this. Research shows this. The Media Research Center studied
the first hundred days and coverage, and ninety three percent
of the Donald Trump stories were negative on the three networks, ABC,

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CBS and NBC. Ninety three percent of the coverage. And
to give you some perspective on that, on all four
years of Joe Biden, which was a disaster when he
was becoming, his mental capacity was declining, and the networks

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ignored that when the border was open and the networks
were slow to cover it, and then ignored it again
when we had a recession, and just because the Biden
administration said it's not a recession, they went along with that.
Fifty nine percent of the coverage of Joe Biden over

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the four years was positive positive. Just to give you
the two figures again, four years of Joe Biden disaster,
two war started, fifty nine percent of the coverage was
positive to Joe Biden. One hundred days of Donald Trump

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already ninety three percent of the coverage is negative. Even
when it comes to the border, which is incredible. It
was eighty three percent negative on the border and on immigration,
the one thing he was able to turn around his

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greatest success. Negative. And there's ramifications of this, so you
might think, well, yeah, that's the media, I'll just turn
something else on. No, no, no, there's real ramifications of this.
We just had a poll come out where people said
only thirty percent of people agree thirty three I think
it was thirty three percent of people agree with Donald

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what Donald Trump is doing with the economy, and they're fearful.
Why are they fearful because of the media, because the
economic figures right now shouldn't elicit fear. The GDP is great, unemployment,
more jobs are being created. Inflation is at a good number.

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It's two point five four percent. Two point zero is perfect.
All the economic indicators are great. Why is the stock
market falling because of the media? Why is consumer confidence
down because of the media? And that has real impact
on our lives. So this isn't just well, you can

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look at it and say, oh, look, they're just they're biased,
but we all know that. No, No, they influence how
we live by their coverage and they have to do better.
And one of the things that've been horrible about, and
that's what I'm going to get to, are the tariffs.
They have scared everybody about the tariffs. That's why people think, oh,

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the economy is horrible because of what's going to happen
in the tariffs. And they have no idea what's going
to happen with the tariffs. Knows what's going to happen.
Scott bessen't the Treasury secretary who's been doing this all
his life. And so there's already deals being made India
is going to happen really fast. There's several other deals
that are going to be made very quickly. And everybody says, well,

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only China, only China matters. China is already talking, and
China has to come to the table because they have
much more to lose.

Speaker 7 (26:18):
Remember that we are the deficit country. They sell almost
five times more goods to us than we sell to them,
So the onus will be on them to the take.

Speaker 12 (26:32):
Off these tariffs. They're unsustainable for.

Speaker 1 (26:34):
Them, right. They send us five times more than we
send them, So the effect on these tariffs could cripple
the Chinese economy. So we only talk about it. The
immediately talks about us what it's going to do to us,
And they, as Terry Moran said a second ago, they've
done the math. No they haven't. They haven't done the math.

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They don't know what they're talking about. And by the way,
the reason these tariffs are so important because the big
beautiful bill with all those tax cuts, these tariffs are
going to pay for that.

Speaker 12 (27:08):
What President Trump is referring to is the ability for
tariff revenue to give income tax relief. And I think
there's a very good chance that we will see this
in the upcoming tax bill.

Speaker 1 (27:20):
Look it, I love journalism, I really do. Loved it.
I've done it all my life, won several awards for journalism,
and it angers me when I see bad journalism. It
angers me at what's happened to the media these days.
They have to do better. Well. The city and state,
as you know, has defied Donald Trump's threats to pull

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federal funding if they don't do something about congestion pricing.
And now the Transportation Secretary is in town to say,
you know what, it's time to pay up. You'll hear
from him next well, the Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, he
did an interview with Fox in New York on the
Morning show, and he was there for quite some time

(28:05):
talking about congestion pricing, talking about the work on Penn
Station and on the Moyni Hand building, and it was
a really fascinating back and forth between the two of them.
But it seems like now we had a second deadline
now pass on congestion pricing, on turning the cameras off.

(28:27):
It sounds like the Trump administration is very serious right
now about removing federal funding, about stopping federal funding. And
if you look at the amount of money the state
of New York gets and the city gets. You know,
we're talking about tens of billions of dollars that could
be cut off just for not turning off those cameras.

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And I know it's a fight that Kathy Hokal wants
because she believes politically anything she does to take on
Donald Trump that inspires the Democratic voters to get out.
So this is good politically for her. It could kill
the state in the city. It could really hurt the
state in the city. But the Trump administration is serious

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about this.

Speaker 5 (29:14):
The federal government under the last administration after the election,
gave approval for.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
This congestion pricing.

Speaker 5 (29:21):
By the way, this is the first time in American
history that there's no free pathway to get into a
certain area.

Speaker 1 (29:27):
So if you have a toll road, there's also a.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
Free pathway that you can take that may not be
as fast, but you can actually get to the same
location from point A to point B without paying a toll.
This is the first time you have to pay a
toll a tax to get into a court in area.

Speaker 1 (29:41):
There's no free pathway in now. He said two things
there that are extremely important and are going to be
part of stopping in federal funding, and then the court
case to come after that. There is already a court case.
Now there'll be more when or they'll just add on
to the one that's now if he stops the federal funding.
The first thing they said was that the Biden administration,

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after the election and before he left office, went ahead
and said, oh, yeah, we're approving all of this. Well,
what he said also is that they didn't do a
proper study. They just rubber stamp this, and so we
want to do a full study. We want to at
least put it on pause until we do a full

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study because the past administration didn't do what they were
supposed to do. And you know, probably you've heard there
wasn't enough public comment. I mean, they pushed this through
and we're not going to listen to anybody, and they
were going to make sure that everything was just rubber stamped.
So he's got a pretty good argument when it comes
to this, but he also reached out politically. He was

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smart in saying in dividing the people of New York
and New Jersey into two categories and saying this was
done specifically to make sure and we've been talking about
this on this show since I've been doing the show.
Is the congestion pricing is just to get the peons

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off the road, to make sure that the middle class
and the poor they're not causing congestion so the rich people.
The rich people can get to their plays and their
cars can get them to the restaurant they want to
go to. And it just is awful when you have
to travel and you have to sit in traffic behind buick.

Speaker 5 (31:37):
If you look at middle income travelers, low income travelers
that have been priced out of coming into New York City,
it's not rageous as a policy. If you're rich or
your company pays for you to come into the city,
it's great traffics down right. They're raising money for MTA.
But if you're the average average New York or someone
from New Jersey and you're coming in, you can't afford it.

Speaker 1 (31:58):
We don't. We don't have roads just for the elites.
They're for everybody. Yeah, they're making the argument that they're
fighting for the middle class, that they're making it more
affordable to come in New York for the middle class.
He also talked about the MTA and the fact that
they want proof, which is what everybody's been calling for.

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Do an audit, take a look at some of their contracts,
take a look at some of the money they've been spending.
Before you give them all this money, Maybe the.

Speaker 5 (32:29):
MTA has to do a better job of managing their budget.
If you're going to build a mile of subway for
four billion dollars and you spend two hundred and fifty
million dollars a quarter of a billion on consulting, maybe
they need to spend their their their money better. Maybe
it's not a revenue problem, maybe it's a spending problem.

Speaker 1 (32:45):
So why did the Transportation Secretary go on Fox five?
Why because he wanted to make those arguments because they
are all ready getting ready for a big fight with
the city. Federal funding is going to be cut off.
It's coming and it's going to be a huge fight,

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and he's already telling you what side you should be on.
Federal judges, man, are there running amok these days. There's
been seventy negative rulings injunctions to stop Trump policies. We'll
talk with Jeffrey Lickman about the Democratic injunction strategy coming
up after the seven o'clock News